[PATCH 0/25 v3] fs: Convert all embedded bdis into separate ones

Jens Axboe axboe at kernel.dk
Thu Apr 20 11:11:16 PDT 2017


On Wed, Apr 12 2017, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is the third revision of the patch series which converts all embedded
> occurences of struct backing_dev_info to use standalone dynamically allocated
> structures. This makes bdi handling unified across all bdi users and generally
> removes some boilerplate code from filesystems setting up their own bdi. It
> also allows us to remove some code from generic bdi implementation.
> 
> The patches were only compile-tested for most filesystems (I've tested
> mounting only for NFS & btrfs) so fs maintainers please have a look whether
> the changes look sound to you.
> 
> This series is based on top of bdi fixes that were merged into linux-block
> git tree into for-next branch. I have pushed out the result as a branch to
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs.git bdi
> 
> Since all patches got reviewed by Christoph, can you please pick them up Jens?
> Thanks!

Yep, picked up for 4.12. Thanks Jan!

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Jens Axboe




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